Join us at The James Joyce Centre on Friday, 12 June 2026 at 7pm as soprano Lorna Windsor and pianist Nicole Panizza present the European premiere of Chamber Music, with the poems of James Joyce and songs of Ross Lee Finney.

In 1927, Joyce was living in Paris, where the young American composer, Ross Lee Finney (1906-1997) was introduced to him. Finney, like Joyce, was also a singer, guitarist and pianist. Finney later became a leading American, Pulitzer-awarded composer of the mid-twentieth century. He was the only classical music composer to set the whole collection of Chamber Music poems, but performing the complete cycle, due to the revised laws of the Joyce Legacy, was too prohibitive in cost.